178 Mr Arthur Bennett on [sess. lii. 



Additions to the Scottish Flora during 1887, with a R4sum4 of 

 the Years Work. By A. Bennett, F.L.S., Croydon, Surrey. 



(Read 9th February 1888.) 



In these notes I have endeavoured to give some of the 

 results of the investigation of Scottish plants, and their dis- 

 tribution during 1887, as kindly supplied to nie by cori'e- 

 spondents or friends. I propose shortly to notice the work 

 of those I have knowledge of, beginning with the most 

 northern counties. My friend Mr Beeby, in Shetland, has 

 been fortunate enough to gather three additions to our flora, 

 Callitriche polymorpha, Lonn., Hieraeium pidchellum, Lindb., 

 and Carex cwspitosa, Lin. (the true plant of Fries and Drejer), 

 besides many additions to the list for the islands ; such as 

 Potamogeton prcelongus, Wulf., P. pcctinatus, L., Geum rivalc, 

 Rumex conspersus, &c. In Caithness, Mr F. Hanbury has 

 also done good work, adding (with my friends, Dr Ward and 

 j\Ir W. W. Reeves) some twenty plants to its flora, as 

 Hicracium argcnteum, Allium ursimim, Oxyria reniformis, 

 and several Hieraccce, which are now in Dr Lindberg's hands 

 for determination. Among them I consider he has two (if 

 not three) new to our flora. In West and East Sutherland, 

 tlie liov. E. S. Marshall has gathered Carex aquatilis, C. 

 alpicola, Equisetum arenarium, Salix Myrsinites, Carex pelia, 

 F. 0. Lang (a sub-species of p)anicea), and others, especially 

 Pseudathyrium alpestrc, on the east side of Ben Clibrick, and 

 Junciis alpinus, Vill., in West Sutherland. 



In the west of Scotland, Mr Ewing and his confreres have 

 done good service in several of the counties by recording 

 many of the commoner species wanting in the 2nd edition of 

 Watson's Topographical Botany. As noted in the Scottish 

 Naturalist, one of the new plants has been found in the 

 west — i.e., Ardbis alpina, Linn., in the Isle of Skye — by Mr 

 H. C. Hart, in July last. In Inverness, Mr G. C. Druce has 

 been working that country side of the Cairngorm watershed, 

 and it has proved very rich, especially Glen Eunich. He 

 has there gathered many of the very rare alpines, such as 

 Ilieracium aggrcgatum, globosum, melanocephalum, senescens, 

 exiinium, &c., Carex aquatilis, C. lagopina, Phlcum alpinum, 

 AlojKcurus alpinus, &c. In I'crthsliire,. J)r White and Mr 

 Jjrebner have again added to our flora liy gatliering Juncus 



